Notes:

2. Though he addressed the
note October 24, Whitman wrote in his Daybooks and
Notebooks that it "went probably Oct 25" (Daybooks
and Notebooks, ed. William White [New York: New York University Press,
1978], 1:45). [back]

3. The 1876 editions of
Two Rivulets and Leaves of
Grass, inscribed "H R Ricardo | from the author" are also in the Reed
Collection. [back]